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Topic: Queens and Drones (Read 1667 times)

May be a stupid question but here goes. I am planning on requeening a few of my hives this fall with russians. If she is sold as a mated queen and produces more offspring, will the drones of this now russian hives mate with queens from other hives giving me italian/russian crosses? Or do the drones pretty much just stay with the pheremones that they are used to?

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I have found the queens go just as far as they need too, and are not set by a programmed distance. But more from where the nearest DCA is located. I think as selected by nature over many years, where the next feral hive may be a bit of a distance away, the queen is ABLE to fly a mile or two. I seriously doubt any claim of queens flying anything close to 5 miles. Most information on drone saturation for breeding programs mentions outyards at 1/2 or 1 mile distances. This may be much more in line with how far a queen flies to mate.